Aaron Swartz indicted.

Posted on July 19, 2011 by AnarchyAngel

Got this email from the good group of people at Demand Progress:

Shocking news: Moments ago former Demand Progress Executive Director Aaron Swartz was indicted by the US government. As best as we can tell, he is being charged with allegedly downloading too many journal articles from the Web. The government contends that downloading so many journal articles constitutes felony computer hacking and should be punished with time in prison. We disagree.

Will you click here to sign our petition of support for Aaron?

The charges are made all the more senseless by the fact that the alleged victim has settled any claims against Aaron, explained they’ve suffered no loss or damage, and asked the government not to prosecute.

James Jacobs, the Government Documents Librarian at Stanford University — where Aaron did undergraduate work — denounced the arrest: “Aaron’s prosecution undermines academic inquiry and democratic principles,” Jacobs said. “It’s incredible that the government would try to lock someone up for allegedly looking up articles at a library.”

Will you click here to show your support for Aaron?

Thanks for your support and concern as we help see Aaron through these tough times. We’ll keep you updated.

— The Demand Progress team

This is just unreal and needs to be stopped here! Help Demand Progress and end this kind of crap for good!! Also if you can Demand Progress needs donations to fund their fight. Anything will help im sure, see their site for more details on that.

dc414 gathering 7.20.11

Posted on July 15, 2011 by AnarchyAngel

ngharo and I started talking last night about our talk at DC19 and decided the best thing to do would be to get some input from the rest of the bunch. So we are planning on sitting down at BGC on the 20th at 7pm, come join us 🙂

BGC info:
2008 N Farwell
Milwaukee Wisconsin, 53202

iPillage release

Posted on July 14, 2011 by AnarchyAngel

iPillage is a web application security testing tool designed to be lightweight and easy to use developed by dc414 for Chrome as a browser extension. Allowing anyone to pen-test any page they visit and all the links it might contain at the click of a button.

More info

DOWNLOAD

dc414 @ DEFCON19

Posted on July 8, 2011 by AnarchyAngel

ngharo and I will be giving a presentation at DEFCON19!! DefCon Groups asked us to talk a little about dc414. Like about how we run it, what we do at meetings, what we do in public, and other odds and ends. This will be a first and a honor for the both of us, It should be lots of fun 🙂

Know you rights event post…..blog post and news

Posted on July 2, 2011 by AnarchyAngel

The know your rights event was a huge success!! We took a bunch of pictures which we will be uploading later. I big thanks to Candlelight Collective, Waring R. Fincke, M.Peters Trucking, and the dc414 crew for making the event happen!!

And in other news, because most of us will be at DEFCON at the time our normal dc414 meeting takes place we will be moving the date to August 12th. Things will be back to normal in September.

June 2011 meeting recap

Posted on June 28, 2011 by AnarchyAngel

I know this post is a little late but we have been busy with other stuff, and my mom always said better late then never. Valdimir started us off with a fun demo of his magnetic card reader “vid below”, which could also write to a card but he didnt have the right software, he said he will be getting the right stuff soon. Then he came out with the big guns, a 3G/cell phone jammer!! This thing was all kinds of fun, and i uploaded a little vid of one of the demos we did with it “bellow”. The awesomeness didn’t end there, dw5304 gave us a nice demo of ZFS and showed off some of its more robust features. One of my personal favorite features was being able to pipe snap shots to anything!! Congrats to Darkwind for beeing last meetings winner of free junk from dc414!! Here are some pics taken at dc414.

Darkwind and his winnings!

Vlad reading cards:

Vlad be jammin:

More Blacklist

Posted on June 21, 2011 by AnarchyAngel

Got this email from the kind people at Demand Progress:

We’re forcing them to take our concerns seriously: Demand Progress members have sent more than 50,000 emails to Senators to urge them to oppose the Internet Blacklist Bill (the PROTECT IP Act). Now we’re hearing back from them, and one thing is clear: Our emails are compelling Senators to start thinking hard about Internet freedom.

PROTECT IP would give the government the power to force Internet service providers, search engines, and other “information location tools” to block users’ access to sites that have been accused of copyright infringement — the initiation of a China-style censorship regime here in the United States.

Will you email Congress to urge them to oppose the PROTECT IP Act? Just click here.

Senators are writing back to let us know that our emails are making them think twice before rubber-stamping PROTECT IP. For instance, Oregon’s Jeff Merkley is telling Demand Progress members:

I have heard from many Oregonians on both sides of this issue – those who support providing U.S. agencies with greater authority to shut down websites, and those who are worried that the legislation could result in Internet censorship. Thanks to your letter and the letters of fellow Oregonians, I have asked my staff to take a closer look into this legislation.

Let’s keep it coming — Will you email Congress to urge them to oppose the PROTECT IP Act? Just click here.

Thanks for fighting for Internet freedom!

Send a email to your senator now and stop this evil act.

Help 2600 Magazine Compile a List of Dates for their Hacker Calendar!

Posted on June 9, 2011 by AnarchyAngel

2600, the magazine familiar to many as a preeminent hacking quarterly, is publishing a calendar. While, according to the 2600 site, most calendars only mark holidays, 2600 intends to “provide as complete a guide to milestones in the hacker world as humanly possible.” Not an easy task considering that, depending on your definition, hacking could extend to the discovery of fire, or at least the wheel.

2600 gives some examples in which they only list events back to March 3, 1885, when AT&T was founded. If this example is followed, that “only” gives one 126 years to work with, but compiling a full list of hacking dates is still a daunting task. If you can think of any dates worthy of consideration, email them to: calendar@2600.com. We think maybe September 5th, 2004 might be a notable date to include. We’ll leave it up to figure out what that date is, in case it wasn’t painfully obvious.

OP: http://hackaday.com/2011/06/04/help-2600-magazine-compile-a-list-of-dates-for-their-hacker-calendar/

Defend Online Anonymity – Set Up a Tor Relay

Posted on June 7, 2011 by AnarchyAngel

Got this in a email from the good people over at EFF:

Dear Anarchy,
We use Tor to access our website and to publish to our blog, which is blocked inside of our country. — Iranian human rights activist
If you could do something to make the Internet safer and more private for activists, investigative journalists, and humanitarian aid workers around the world, would you?

You can.

Today EFF is launching the Tor Challenge—a campaign to encourage Internet users all over the world to support the Tor network by operating relays.

Tor is a service that helps you to protect your anonymity while using the Internet and allows you to circumvent Internet censorship. When you use the Tor software, your real IP address remains hidden. Activists all over the world depend on Tor to maintain anonymity when communicating and accessing websites that have been blocked by their governments.

The Tor software depends on the Tor network, which is made up of Tor relays operated by individuals like you. The more Tor relays we have running, the faster, more secure and more robust the Tor network becomes.

Are you ready to help Internet activists all over the world?

Click here to see how and learn more.
Defending your digital rights,

The EFF Activism Team

This is a great idea and more ppl should run tor exit relays, but it does not come with out some pains. I kept on getting DMCA notices so i had to employ a few exit policy rules on my relay. Here is the ones im using.

ExitPolicy accept *:20-23 # FTP, SSH, telnet ExitPolicy accept *:43 # WHOIS ExitPolicy accept *:53 # DNS ExitPolicy accept *:79-81 # finger, HTTP ExitPolicy accept *:88 # kerberos ExitPolicy accept *:110 # POP3 ExitPolicy accept *:143 # IMAP ExitPolicy accept *:194 # IRC ExitPolicy accept *:220 # IMAP3 ExitPolicy accept *:443 # HTTPS ExitPolicy accept *:464-465 # kpasswd, SMTP over SSL ExitPolicy accept *:543-544 ExitPolicy accept *:563 # NNTP over SSL ExitPolicy accept *:587 # SMTP ExitPolicy accept *:706 ExitPolicy accept *:749 # kerberos ExitPolicy accept *:873 # rsync ExitPolicy accept *:902-904 ExitPolicy accept *:981 ExitPolicy accept *:989-995 # FTP over SSL, Netnews Administration System, telnets, IMAP over SSL, ircs, POP3 over SSL ExitPolicy accept *:1194 # openvpn ExitPolicy accept *:1220 # QT Server Admin ExitPolicy accept *:1293 # PKT-KRB-IPSec ExitPolicy accept *:1500 # VLSI License Manager ExitPolicy accept *:1723 # PPTP ExitPolicy accept *:1863 # MSNP ExitPolicy accept *:2082-2083 # Radius ExitPolicy accept *:2086-2087 # GNUnet, ELI ExitPolicy accept *:2095-2096 # NBX ExitPolicy accept *:3128 # SQUID ExitPolicy accept *:3389 # MS WBT ExitPolicy accept *:3690 # SVN ExitPolicy accept *:4321 # RWHOIS ExitPolicy accept *:4643 ExitPolicy accept *:5050 # MMCC ExitPolicy accept *:5190 # ICQ ExitPolicy accept *:5222-5223 # XMPP, XMPP over SSL ExitPolicy accept *:5900 # VNC ExitPolicy accept *:6666-6667 #IRC ExitPolicy accept *:6679 ExitPolicy accept *:6697 ExitPolicy accept *:8000 # iRDMI ExitPolicy accept *:8008 ExitPolicy accept *:8080 # HTTP Proxies ExitPolicy accept *:8087-8088 # Simplify Media SPP Protocol, Radan HTTP ExitPolicy accept *:8443 # PCsync HTTPS ExitPolicy accept *:8888 # HTTP Proxies, NewsEDGE ExitPolicy accept *:9418 # git ExitPolicy accept *:9999 # distinct ExitPolicy accept *:10000 # Network Data Management Protocol ExitPolicy accept *:19638 ExitPolicy reject *:*

So anyway, yes everyone should run a tor relay and should also use the above for your tor relay config. On ubuntu boxes just search for ExitPolicy in /etc/tor/torrc and past it in. Be sure to comment out any pre-existing exit policies. Ok go set up a tor exit relay already!!

Know your rights event!!

Posted on May 31, 2011 by AnarchyAngel

dc414 is proud to produce the “Know your rights event” on July 1st 2011 at Candlelight Collective. The goal of this event is to educate the people and teach them how they can preserve their civil liberties during police encounters with confidence. The event will start with a viewing of the 40 minute film “10 Rules for Dealing with Police” from FlexYourRights.org followed by a few words from Waring R. Fincke attorney at law. After which there will be time for any questions the audience might have.

Help us spread the word! Download this flyer, make copies and post them around!

More info HERE